FOSS Weekly #56 - RISC-V Wearables, Ryzen AI on Linux, Firefox 119, and more

Welcome to another edition of FOSS Weekly! In the last week, Shopify open sourced another Ruby tool, Qualcomm announced they are working on RISC-V based chipsets for wearables, and the new Raspberry Pi became available. There were also some big software releases.

📰 News

• Qualcomm, Google to create RISC-V based WearOS chipsets [qualcomm.com]

• Raspberry Pi 5 is available now [raspberrypi.com]

• Firefox 119 is here with improved PDF editing [phoronix.com]

• Shopify open sources “Ruvy” which lets you create WASM modules from Ruby [shopify.engineering]

🐧 Linux updates

• GNOME hires Holly Million as executive director [gnome.org]

• AMD is considering Ryzen AI support on Linux [phoronix.com]

• KDE Plasma 6 releasing on February 28, 2024 [kde.org]

• VirtualBox 7 has added support for upcoming Linux 6.6 [virtualbox.org]

📝 Releases

• Moonlight PC v5.0.0 [github.com]

• qBittorrent v4.6.0 [qbittorrent.org]

• KDE Frameworks 5.111.0 [kde.org]

• Node.js 21 [openjsf.org]

• Yarn 4.0 [yarnpkg.com]

🔗 Also read

• This Week in GNOME [thisweek.gnome.org]

• LibreArts weekly recap [librearts.org]

• Fedora appreciation week 2023 [fedoraproject.org]

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